Amanda Holpuch

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

The chief federal judge in Minnesota said ICE had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

The Look Book Goes to a Bridge Club On a recent Wednesday afternoon, dozens of declarers and dummies paired up to play cards and sip coffee at Honors in Midtown East.

"You don’t come here for friendships, not in this arena. This is competitive bridge. I would say about 70 percent of the people out there are playing with people who are like pros. If you want a friend, go to church. You ain’t going to find no friends here!" www.curbed.com/article/hono....

Bob Dylan Is Having a Hollywood Moment. His No. 1 Hater Is Ready.

At the start of the year, I did a 🧵 of all The Great Reads that Metro published last year. In the interests of not overwhelming people's timelines, I'm going to start the thread today and add to it through the end of the year. Here's one from Corey Kilgannon from January.

New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights

The suit argues that the DOD's new policy violated the First Amendment and “seeks to restrict journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done — ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.”

To Thank Their Parents, They Bought Them a House

"As children, they watched their parents work double shifts and multiple jobs. As adults, they gave their parents a version of the American dream." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/r...

The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply. Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80 percent from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.

Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80% from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.

Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say

Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A W.N.B.A. Star Loves These Sneakers. She Gets Fined for Wearing Them.

Courtney Williams, a Minnesota Lynx all-star, wears sneakers made by Moolah Kicks, a relatively new women’s basketball shoe company. She was fined four times by the WNBA for wearing them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/n...

Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists

"In March, Mr. Hatch testified, he formed a 'tiger team,' or a specialized task force, to respond to abrupt orders that he rush analysis on thousands of people whose names and identities had been published by Canary Mission." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car

Customer charged $195 for A.I.-detected damage: “It could have been a shadow. We were pulling it up on the app, and we’re like, ‘This is so bananas.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/t...

Protesters in all 50 states marched against President Trump's policies on Saturday as Trump held a military parade in Washington. Read more: https://trib.al/JnBJSdw

CFPB Official Quits With Fiery Email The Trump administration has frozen the agency’s work and abandoned most of its lawsuits against banks and lenders.

“It is clear that the bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way,” Ms. Petersen wrote in her farewell email. “While I wish you all the best, I worry for American consumers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Update from Laurel Rosenhall

Gavin Newsom says the president's claim that the two men spoke by phone yesterday is false. Newsom's spokesman told The Times that he had personally looked through the governor's cell phone and that there was “No missed call. No voicemail. Nothing.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce Trump Administration's ‘Harmful’ Policies

In a scathing letter, employees accused the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering study participants and censoring research. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’

Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are "running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Biden’s I.R.S. Doubled Audits on the Wealthy, Data Shows

"People making over $500,000 on their latest return were more than twice as likely to be audited compared with the same point in the audit cycle in previous years." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests

Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

For Some International Students, U.S. Dreams Dim Under Trump

Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity."

w/ the wonderful @holpuch.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

Opinion | Trump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together and Moved Forward. (Gift Article) When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.

"When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

The N.S.F. said it was terminating awards that were not in line with its priorities, "including but not limited to awards focused on D.E.I. as well as misinformation and disinformation." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.

"Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article) Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.

DHS denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered in New York on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

Instead, he experienced the birth of his son by telephone from Jena, La. It is unclear when he will be able to see the baby.

Trump’s Tariff Goal Is to Eliminate Trade Deficits. Economists Have Doubts. Behind Trump’s new tariffs is a goal that is as ambitious as it is unrealistic: eliminating the bilateral trade deficit with every U.S. trading partner.

“It’s totally silly,” Dani Rodrik, an economist who studies globalization at Harvard University, said of Mr. Trump’s focus on bilateral deficits. “There’s no other way to say it, it makes no sense.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.

The Times spoke with demonstrators in cities including Albany, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore and Ketchum, Idaho. Some said it was their first protest ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.

A former U.S.A.I.D. employee said an estimated $27 million worth of family planning products are stuck at places including warehouses and ports with no employees or programs left to unload them or hand them over to governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

A Traditional Ramadan Treat Gets a Modern Remake (but Good Luck Getting It) Marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria, used to be a simple loaf, but now the list of choices can be as long as the lines of customers.

"Syrians are proud of their rich culinary traditions, but not precious about allowing them to evolve. There are now olives in the fattoush salad. Onions in the shawarma. Parsley in the hummus. And then there is marook." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.

"Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther cubs know The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride and burning lessons for today

The Guardian talked to nine Panther cubs across the U.S. "All have shared intimate stories about their exceptional childhoods, born to parents who challenged America’s white establishment in a bid for what they saw as Black self-determination." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.

“Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” one scientist at the National Institutes of Health said. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...